As Long as There Are People, Evil Will Keep Breeding

For a moment, Fugaku truly wished that his hearing had gone wrong, rather than Uchiha Chisen harboring such a dangerous thought.

—He wanted to kill Lord Hokage but hadn't found a suitable opportunity!

Was that something one could say openly and without shame in broad daylight?

Even someone as composed as Fugaku nearly lost his composure.

At that moment.

Many members of the Konoha Military Police Force arrived one after another.

They blocked off every intersection, leaving Uchiha Onigawara no chance whatsoever to escape.

Their wary gazes also fell upon the two men ahead.

But when they discovered that Uchiha Chisen was present as well.

They were all visibly stunned.

"Uchiha Chisen? He... seems to be related to Uchiha Onigawara, right? If I remember correctly, he's his nephew?"

A member of the Konoha Military Police Force muttered to himself in astonishment.

Uchiha Onigawara was just as shocked as Fugaku.

He had thought that, as Uchiha Chisen's blood relative, he understood Uchiha Chisen's extreme personality very well.

Only now did he realize...

His understanding of Uchiha Chisen had ultimately been far too shallow.

This brat was extreme beyond all bounds!

He dared to kill Uchiha Clan shinobi, he dared to kill his own blood relatives, and he even dared to kill the Hokage himself!

In this vast Shinobi World...

Who was there that he did not dare to kill?

The agony of having all ten fingers connected to his heart blurred Uchiha Onigawara's vision. Whenever Uchiha Chisen took a step forward, he staggered a step back.

Uchiha Onigawara suddenly bared a vicious grin, his tone turning ruthless. "...Chisen, honestly, isn't your so-called [Absolute Justice] merely an excuse for killing? Besides, you may not have killed fewer people in Konoha than I have, right? You and I are actually the same! Our blood is connected! We are both bloodthirsty people!"

"Chisen! Sooner or later, your mask will be torn away! Sooner or later, you will become exactly like me! No, you will become even more extreme than I am! This is the fate ordained by the Uchiha Clan blood flowing between us!"

In the blink of an eye, Uchiha Onigawara's vision was completely filled with surging magma.

With all ten fingers melted away by the magma, he no longer had the strength to resist.

They were so close that he did not even have a chance to dodge.

"Chisen! I'll wait for you in the Underworld!!!"

—Boom!!!

A headless body instantly lost all strength.

It fell stiffly backward.

Uchiha Onigawara.

Dead!

Ding! You have successfully killed a "Red Name" Evil Person! Your Chakra has received a minor increase! Congratulations, you have successfully obtained: "The Sharingan ocular power possessed by Uchiha Onigawara"!

Uchiha Chisen's magma-transformed arm had returned to normal.

He closed his eyes and stood silently in place without moving.

He could clearly feel a stream of ocular power in his eyes being rapidly absorbed, digested, and merged into his own Sharingan ocular power.

This change lasted only two brief seconds before ending.

To outsiders...

He appeared to have fallen into deathly silence after personally killing the blood relative who had fallen into the abyss of evil.

"This guy..." An Uchiha Clan shinobi wanted to step forward and check the situation, but hesitated. "For his so-called [Absolute Justice], he really killed his own blood relative?"

One Konoha Military Police Force shinobi fell silent for half a second before slowly saying in a low voice, "It's said that Uchiha Onigawara was Uchiha Chisen's only living blood relative."

"This..."

"No wonder he is called a genius rarely seen in the Uchiha Clan for decades. With such resolve, he will awaken the legendary Mangekyō Sharingan someday, won't he?"

"He seems to have his eyes closed... Hey, hey, I remember he has three tomoe. Is he really about to awaken?"

"That can't be possible..."

"Tch, the [Absolute Justice] that guy keeps talking about wasn't nonsense after all. Before Uchiha Onigawara died, he even tried to shake Uchiha Chisen's Nindo. He must have been overthinking it. How could someone like this be swayed?"

"..."

Amid the crowd's hushed whispers, Izumi arrived late in a hurry with Kijiro.

Her hands braced against her knees as she panted heavily, her little face pale.

"Meow, Lord Chisen really did put righteousness above family..."

Izumi suddenly heard Kijiro's somewhat shocked voice from her shoulder.

She hurriedly looked up and saw Senior Chisen standing quietly before a headless corpse.

A little magma still flowed across the ground ahead.

She said in shock, "Th-that corpse, could it be?"

Kijiro said, "It's Uchiha Onigawara. The corpse's head is nowhere to be found, and its neck looks charred and carbonized. There's no need to guess—he was definitely killed by Lord Chisen's Lava Release, meow."

"Meow, this was Lord Chisen's only living blood relative. Now, Lord Chisen is truly all alone in this world."

Izumi pressed her lips together.

"Is Senior Chisen... suffering right now?"

She murmured.

Izumi could not imagine what she would feel if she had personally killed one of her own blood relatives.

Sorrow?

Pain?

Regret?

Grief?

"Ah—" She hurriedly wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes. When she turned her head, she met Kijiro's disdainful gaze.

"Newbie, your empathy is way too strong. Good thing Lord Chisen didn't look this way, or you'd lose points, meow."

Izumi quietly defended herself, "But... perhaps only people with strong empathy can truly understand how hard-won justice and fairness are."

She took a deep breath. While none of the Konoha Military Police Force shinobi, including Fugaku, took even a single step forward.

She took the initiative to walk toward Uchiha Chisen.

"...Senior Chisen?" Izumi came to Uchiha Chisen's side and gathered her courage to remind him.

"Newbie, you came at just the right time."

She realized that Senior Chisen did not sound sad. His tone was as calm as ever, as though he had already gone numb.

Uchiha Chisen asked, "Which lesson was this that I taught you?"

Izumi hurriedly straightened up and answered, "The fourth lesson! No matter how others commit evil under grandiose excuses, we must unwaveringly carry out Absolute Justice! Even if..."

She had an excellent memory.

She could remember everything Senior Chisen said after hearing it only once.

Izumi's voice grew a little somber, but then she remembered how the people around them had never understood the justice Senior Chisen believed in. She immediately raised her voice and shouted, "Even if we must turn the blade of justice upon the people we know best and hold dearest!"

"We must still show no hesitation! We must still strike without indulgence!"

"We must enforce justice through absolutely thorough measures!!!"

"And thereby purge the evil from the Shinobi World!!!"

Uchiha Chisen glanced at Izumi, whose little face had reddened slightly from shouting, then turned to Uchiha Fugaku in the distance. "You can handle the aftermath."

The girl's resolute shout still echoed beside Fugaku's ears.

He looked at Uchiha Chisen and Izumi with a complicated expression.

Chisen had ultimately passed his "Nindo" on to the next generation!

But could the "evil" of the Shinobi World truly be purged?

—Chisen, as long as there are people, evil will keep breeding without end! You understand this better than anyone, don't you?

Fugaku did not say those words aloud.

But he knew that after today, quite a few people within the Uchiha Clan would likely change their opinion of Chisen.